Compare · 2026-10-14

Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Claude Opus 5.5

As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Haiku 4.5 leads Claude Opus 5.5 in 0 of 7 shared categories.

CategoryClaude Haiku 4.5Claude Opus 5.5
General LLM
#104 · #104 in General LLM
Margin 70.74829931972789
LMArena leaderboard dataset · Oct 13, 2026
#2 · Near-SOTA · General LLM
Margin 1.3605442176870781
LMArena leaderboard dataset · Oct 13, 2026
Reasoning
#91 · #91 in Reasoning
Margin 63.013698630136986
LMArena leaderboard dataset · Oct 13, 2026
#1 · Co-SOTA · Reasoning
Margin 0
LMArena leaderboard dataset · Oct 13, 2026
Math
#— · Not enough data
Margin —
LMArena leaderboard dataset · Oct 13, 2026
#— · Not enough data
Margin —
LMArena leaderboard dataset · Oct 13, 2026
Science
#109 · #109 in Science
Margin —
Epoch AI benchmarking hub · Oct 15, 2025
#31 · #31 in Science
Margin —
Epoch AI benchmarking hub · Sep 22, 2026
Coding
#— · Not enough data
Margin —
Scale Labs leaderboards · Oct 14, 2026
#1 · Co-SOTA · Coding
Margin 0
Terminal-Bench Harbor Hub · Oct 6, 2026
Coding › Agentic—
#1 · Co-SOTA · Coding › Agentic
Margin 0
Terminal-Bench Harbor Hub · Oct 6, 2026
Coding › Web dev
#92 · #92 in Coding › Web dev
Margin 85.04672897196262
LMArena leaderboard dataset · Oct 13, 2026
#1 · SOTA · Coding › Web dev
Margin 0
LMArena leaderboard dataset · Oct 13, 2026
Long context
#84 · #84 in Long context
Margin 57.142857142857146
LMArena leaderboard dataset · Oct 13, 2026
#1 · Co-SOTA · Long context
Margin 0
LMArena leaderboard dataset · Oct 13, 2026
Vision—
#4 · Near-SOTA · Vision
Margin 13.15789473684211
Epoch AI benchmarking hub · Sep 22, 2026
Factuality
#97 · #97 in Factuality
Margin 73.13432835820896
LMArena leaderboard dataset · Oct 13, 2026
#1 · Co-SOTA · Factuality
Margin 0
LMArena leaderboard dataset · Oct 13, 2026
Abstraction (ARC)
#78 · #78 in Abstraction (ARC)
Margin —
Epoch AI benchmarking hub · Oct 15, 2025
#1 · #1 in Abstraction (ARC)
Margin —
Epoch AI benchmarking hub · Sep 22, 2026
Price per 1M tokens

Claude Haiku 4.5: $2.0000000000000004 per 1M blended tokens.

Claude Opus 5.5: $8.000000000000002 per 1M blended tokens.

Open weights

Claude Haiku 4.5: closed weights.

Claude Opus 5.5: closed weights.

Which to pick

General LLM: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 leads Claude Haiku 4.5 in General LLM at #2 against #104.

Reasoning: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 leads Claude Haiku 4.5 in Reasoning at #1 against #91.

Science: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 leads Claude Haiku 4.5 in Science at #31 against #109.

Coding › Web dev: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 leads Claude Haiku 4.5 in Coding › Web dev at #1 against #92.

Long context: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 leads Claude Haiku 4.5 in Long context at #1 against #84.

Factuality: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 leads Claude Haiku 4.5 in Factuality at #1 against #97.

Abstraction (ARC): As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 leads Claude Haiku 4.5 in Abstraction (ARC) at #1 against #78.

Claude Haiku 4.5 · Claude Opus 5.5

Claude Haiku 4.5 or Claude Opus 5.5?

As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Haiku 4.5 leads Claude Opus 5.5 in 0 of 7 shared categories.

Claude Haiku 4.5 or Claude Opus 5.5 for General LLM?

As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 leads Claude Haiku 4.5 in General LLM at #2 against #104.

Claude Haiku 4.5 or Claude Opus 5.5 for Reasoning?

As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 leads Claude Haiku 4.5 in Reasoning at #1 against #91.

Claude Haiku 4.5 or Claude Opus 5.5 for Science?

As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 leads Claude Haiku 4.5 in Science at #31 against #109.